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Davis, Glenn A. (Glenn Augustus), 1894-1980

American photographer Glenn Augustus Davis was born March 22, 1894 in Portland, Oregon. He attended school in Oregon and Washington prior to working in the lumber camps and saw mills of Washington and British Columbia. He served in the US Army from 1915 to 1920. He was a member of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front in France during World War I. In the years following the war, Davis returned to the US and worked as a cook, a cotton grower, and a seaman before following his passion for photography.

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Interview with Megan Gillespie Rice, June 22, 2005

Date

2005-06-22

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Narrator affiliation: Staff member, Nevada Desert Experience: Holy Child Sister

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Goldfield Book of Miniatures

Date

1903

Description

Fold out booklet with miniature photographs of scenes of life in and around Goldfield Nevada. "Devised and made by Tom Jones, publisher of scenic souvenirs, Cincinnati, O."

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Goldman, Ed, 1951-

Edward “Ed” Goldman was born March 19, 1951 in Rochester, New York and spent his childhood in Jerusalem, Israel as well as Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his first bachelor’s degree in political science from Columbia University and a second in Jewish Studies from the University of Judaism. Goldman later received a master’s degree in political science from California State University, and then a doctorate in education and higher administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, focusing on educational law.

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Deacon, Mary Dale, 1943-

Mary Dale Deacon was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Her father was a Presbyterian minister. Deacon and her older sister and younger brother all attended grade school and high school in Las Cruces.

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